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CABLE RAILWAY. No. 388,081. Patented Aug. 21, 1888.

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ABRAHAM A. SIIOBE AND IVILLIAM FFICEG EMBLEY, OF JERSEYVILLE, ILLINOIS.

CABLE RAI LWAYF SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 388,081, dated August 21, 1888.

Application filed December 27, 1887. Serial No. 259,157.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ABRAHAM A. 81101313 and \VILLIAM EM'cmiY, of Jerseyville, in the county of Jersey and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cable Railways; and we do hereby declare that the following isa full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompa nying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Our invention relates to an improvementin cable railways, our object being to provide a substitute for the ordinary guiderail, adapted to reduce to a minimum the friction attending the resistance to the centripetal pressure of the cable upon the gripper as the latter travels round the curved parts of the track; and, further, to provide means for sustaining the cable in such position below the gripper that it may, if necessary, be picked up and clamped as readily while the ear is upon a curve as upon any other part of the road.

With these ends in view our invention consists in certain details of construction and combinations of parts, fully explained in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the curved part of an ordinary cable railway provided with our device, a portion of the top of the cable tube or tunnel being shown as broken away in order to exhibit the gripper and anti-friction rollers. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same, taken in the line :0 00, Fig. 1, enlarged.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a pit located on the concave side of the curved part of the cable tube or tunnel B.

0 represents the gripper, and g a foundation-plate, which may be secured upon masonry or cement in the bottom of the pit; or it may, if so preferred, be secured to the cable tube or frame, connecting the latter with the rails.

Secured vertically in a socket near the inner end of the base-plate g is a fixed spindle or stud, 71 strengthened vertically by a yoke, f, thelower end ofwhich is bolted to the foundation-plate g, and the upper part formed with an eye, through which the stud h projects sufficiently far to form a journal for the reception of an anti-friction roller, (2, the diameter of which is such that its peripheral face will impinge upon the flat side e of the grip-jaw.

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rier or guide-wheel, D, having the form of a truncated cone, and provided at the base with a flange, i. The peculiar form of this cablecarrier is such that when the cable is cast off Immediately below the yoke f is a cable-carover the edge of the lower gripjaw it will,

afterleaving the lattcrand reaching the flange i, travel upon a curve of the same radius as when it is within the grip-jaws, and be sufficiently far under the gripper to be readily picked up by any of the devices employed for imity to each other as the curve may require,

each cable-carrier and anti-friction roller projecting to the required distance within the cable-tube through an opening provided for that purpose in the concave side thereof. By these details and the peculiar combination of parts,

as above described, the ordinary guide-rail is dispensed with, and the waste of power by friction incidental to its use, as well as much of the wear and destruction of parts, is obviated, and the gripper, notwithstanding the centripetal pressure of the cable, is made to sweep smoothly round the curve by rolling contact, instead of frictional contact,with the guiding parts.

Having fully described our invention, what 0 we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- In a cable railway,the combination of a conical cable-carrier with an anti-friction roller,

the latter adapted to impinge upon the side of 5 the grip-jaw, both being journaled upon the same stud or spindle, as set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands this 3d day of November, 1887.

ABRAHAM A. SHOBE. IVILLIAM EMBLEY.

'Witnesses:

F. O. Sormrrenn, R. L. VANDENBURG. 

